| I have been following this subject matter of oil | | | | largest reserves in the world. Rather than wasting |
| and gas now as it has become the ever so | | | | the precious money maker on themselves, they |
| present screen saver on each and every TV and | | | | sit back and sell it to the world while producing |
| newscast I turn to. The economy, the faltering | | | | nearly all of their country's electricity from hydro. |
| market, the ups and downs of oil/gas, and of | | | | Alright, are you going to tell me that with all of |
| course our good ole currency. I wrote previously | | | | the resources and talent here in the US, we |
| about the foundation of an energy policy that | | | | cannot figure out how to make use of other |
| would allow for offshore drilling to compliment an | | | | energy sources. I think that is bunch of garbage. |
| expansion within the alternative fuel markets thus | | | | The fact remains that companies continue to |
| producing a long term plan in which we could free | | | | push the oil agenda to keep the cost high and |
| ourselves from imported oil. As I continue to read, | | | | therefore squeeze additional profits. Instead of |
| I find mounting facts that the reason for our oil | | | | innovation, we are fast becoming the lack luster |
| dependence is far more our own fault than we | | | | pioneers of NOTHING, relying on crude and coal. |
| would like to believe. With increasing technologies | | | | We are falling behind people and this is not an |
| and long term benefits already being leveraged by | | | | opinion but a fact in which all countries are steadily |
| other companies....why are we not leading the way | | | | passing us by one by one while encouraging us to |
| with this? | | | | remain in the past. The leaders are not stupid but |
| Lets take a look at some of the other countries | | | | rather are feeding the gluttony of the US |
| out there, shall we: | | | | machine, lulling us to sleep with the fat and |
| Denmark: The country has invested in wind | | | | satisfied. When that comes to an end, and it will - |
| technology thus producing more than 18% of | | | | someone will wake up and realize that we are so |
| their domestic energy supply from wind. Here in | | | | far behind that we cannot catch up. Our universal |
| the US, we produce less than 1%. | | | | influence has already left us and we are fast |
| France: Nuclear is their claim to fame. I am | | | | becoming less influential than other countries in |
| surprised that that liberals keep bottle-necking this | | | | overall policy development. Energy is simply one |
| process when their great friends across the pond | | | | pillar to that foundation which has been steadily |
| produce 78% of their energy from nuclear. | | | | chipped away at. If we do not do something |
| Norway: Now these guys have it together and I | | | | soon, things will be lost that are a lot more |
| like their energy policy. Norway has some of the | | | | tangible than the words we throw around. |